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Quotes About Fear

See how the fearful chandelier trembles above you each time you open your mouth to sing. Sing.
~ Donald Justice
The advantage always favors the one who is trying to create fear, over the one who is trying to erase it."87
~ Donald L. Barlett
At the heart of all anger, all grudges, and all resentment, you'll always find a fear that hopes to stay anonymous.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Love and Fear are polar opposites. Love originates from the soul, while Fear and worries and insecurities originate in the mind. Love is Heavenly, while Fear is Earthly. Love is a gift from Above, Fear is a burden from below.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Fear and guilt are your enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do you do that? By choosing to. It's that simple.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Only love can free us from fear. Fear causes us to cower in the shadows; Love allows us to dance in the sunlight.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Many people do not want to forfeit their fears. Fear is the only tool they know.
~ Donald L. Hicks
My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.
~ Evita Peron
If you're not living a life on the edge you're taking up too much space! ... You learn the most when you're out of your comfort zone!
~ Jim Whittaker
Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.
~ Assia Djebar
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
~ Seneca the Younger
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
~ Antoine Rivarol
There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
~ Cato the Elder
Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.
~ Noah Weinberg
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
~ Jean Toomer
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough
~ Charlie Chaplin
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
~ Dorothy Day
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
The greatest danger in life is not to take the adventure.
~ George Leigh Mallory
Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.
~ Jhonen Vasquez
The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.
~ A.C. Grayling
Fears are a complete waste of your time. Nine times out of ten, whatever you're afraid of is not dangerous or life threatening. In fact, it's probably not even real.
~ Sean Stephenson